Amartya Sen is one of the world’s best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has…

Recent acts of terrorism and the pro-democracy unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging…

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an…

Examines the explosive problems of our time and shows how we can move towards peace as firmly as we have spiralled towards war. In this book, the author argues that…

Resources, Values and Development contains many of Amartya Sen’s path-breaking contributions to development economics, including papers on resource allocation in nonwage systems, shadow pricing, employment policy, welfare economics, poverty assessment…

This volume is the only one of its kind to explore Sen’s work from a gender perspective. A special issue of the journal Feminist Economics, it features multidisciplinary contributions and…

This book brings together a team of distinguished academics to explore the ideas underlying Amartya Sen’s critique of traditional approaches to injustice. The centrepiece of the book is the first…

This compelling book introduces Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s capability approach and explores its significance for theory, policy and practice in education. The book looks particularly at questions concerning the education…